Urban picnic #1

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5-9 Nan Wan Rd, Tai Po, Hong Kong

7th floor back stairs. 

Not too windy. View of the mountains between apartments on a clear day. To overcast and misty today. 

Only known passers by. 

Convenient. 

Urban picnic site 2

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Urban picnic site 2

A warm low wall outside an attractive school playground. Busy footpath. Interesting seedpods from nearby trees. Plentiful road noise. About 13 min walk, including stop at starbucks. 

Wise words from Steve and Mission Control

This is what it looks like when it's working.

They're not responding to you.

How do I occur for myself?

Habit construction:

Attitude       Emotion
Behaviour   Action
Cognitive    Explanation
(doesn't mean anything)


'i hate myself' is a speech habit that feeds the work habits. 

Hassling Connie with Rilke

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.

Rainer Maria Rilke
-Letters to a Young Poet

Integrity and Teutonic Knights

I read this article while looking for a Hanseatic League ref. It's a neat example of integrity as workability rather than as good or bad. (Luther arguing against the Pope's order that the Knights Templar reform and be more monastic). I'm sticking it in here so I don't lose it, i don't have any other point. It caught my attention.

It's from here:

Luther saw this, and inaugurated a different kind of reform. He seized a favorable opportunity, and exhorted the Knights, in a public address, March 28, 1523, to forsake the false monastic chastity so often broken, and to live in true matrimonial chastity according to the ordinance of God in paradise (Gen. 2:18), which was older and wiser than popes and Councils. "Your order," he argued, "is truly a singular order: it is both secular and spiritual, and neither; it is bound to wield the sword against infidels, and yet to live in celibacy, poverty, and obedience, like other monks. These things do not agree together, as is shown by reason and by daily experience. The order is therefore of no use either to God or the world."⁷⁸⁷

List of failures and disappointments that I suppress

Things I failed at and haven't forgiven myself for and use as a justification not to do new things now.
The Cornerstones of playing a game successfully:
Enrolment   Relationships  

I didn't write an article for J.M.
The stupid extravaganza thing in canberra in ... 1993?
dropping out of Uni in 1993
not learning russian properly, not having an english lit degree
the jigsaw project for the basketball thing
being cut out of the final process of the water play at jigsaw
not getting sbu into the water
failing the pgde assignment
doing the other assignment so badly it's embarrassing

tongue twister

yap sat
yim sat
gam gan
gap jai

(It's the one about going into the lab and turning off the switch).